Business applications

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th and 9th IFIP WG 2.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2020, organised in Zaragoza, Spain, in May 2020.

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications (ICUIA), which took place on May 10-12, 2019 in Wuhan, China.

This brief addresses the estimation of quantile regression models from a practical perspective, which will support researchers who need to use conditional quantile regression to measure economic relationships among a set of variables.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 16th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2019, held in Dubai, UAE, in October 2019.

This book provides readers the "e;big picture"e; and a comprehensive survey of the domain of big data processing systems.

The new edition of this book provides an easily accessible introduction to the statistical analysis of network data using R.

This book explores the role that data analysis plays in the managerial decision-making process.

This volume constitutes a first approximation for the use of systems approaches and dynamic performance management as tools for collaborative governance.

This book introduces the reader to the latest innovations in fields such as artificial intelligence, systems biology or surgery, and gives advice on what new technologies to consider for becoming a market leader of tomorrow.

Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R.

This book offers a modern and accessible introduction to Statistical Inference, the science of inferring key information from data.

The impacts of the digital transformation on society in general, and particularly on people's lives, are the subject of increasing debate among policymakers, researchers and industry.

This book provides a comprehensive and effective exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

This book presents the state of the art on numerical semigroups and related subjects, offering different perspectives on research in the field and including results and examples that are very difficult to find in a structured exposition elsewhere.

Newly revised to specifically address Microsoft Excel 2019, this book is a step-by-step, exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical biological and life science problems.

Newly revised to specifically address Microsoft Excel 2019, this book shows the capabilities of Excel in teaching engineering statistics effectively.

Newly revised to specifically provide demonstration in Excel 2019, this volume shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in business statistics.

This book explores missing data techniques and provides a detailed and easy-to-read introduction to multiple imputation, covering the theoretical aspects of the topic and offering hands-on help with the implementation.

This book features the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the 5th International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference, held in Munich, Germany in 2019.

This book provides a review of advanced topics relating to the theory, research, analysis and implementation in the context of big data platforms and their applications, with a focus on methods, techniques, and performance evaluation.

This book guides readers through the broad field of generic and industry-specific management system standards, as well as through the arsenal of tools that are needed to effectively implement them.

Digitalization is the greatest change project that we have ever known, and data is circulating in unimaginable quantities and at unimaginable speed.

Gathering the outcomes of the 27th annual international eTourism conference ENTER2020, this book presents new research, innovative systems and industry case studies on the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in travel and tourism.

This book adopts a multidimensional approach to explain current practices and trends in facility management.

This book focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems.

An executive's transition into any leadership role can be a challenge.

The transition to Industry 4.

Machine Intelligence is changing every aspect of our lives.

This book examines the shifting role of media trust in a digital world, and critically analyzes how news and stories are created, distributed and consumed.

This book presents a selection of peer-reviewed contributions to the fourth Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, BAYSM 2018, held at the University of Warwick on 2-3 July 2018.

The digitalization of businesses calls for new forms of leadership and collaboration, as traditional human resources strategies are reaching their limits.

This book provides an extensive, up-to-date overview of the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to develop tourism and hospitality.

This book discusses the modeling and analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquired from the human brain.

Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works.

This book depicts a wide range of situations in which there exist finite form representations for the Meijer G and the Fox H functions.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the Cyberspace, of how institutions and industries are reinventing themselves, helping them excel in the transition to a fully digitally connected global economy.

This volume brings together the main results in the field of Bayesian Optimization (BO), focusing on the last ten years and showing how, on the basic framework, new methods have been specialized to solve emerging problems from machine learning, artificial intelligence, and system optimization.

This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the lives of people and businesses more fundamentally than many people can even imagine today.

This volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science.

Electronic participation is an emerging and growing research area that makes use of internet solutions to enhance citizens' participation in government processes in order to provide a fair and efficient society.

This book introduces recently developed mixed finite element methods for large-scale geophysical flows that preserve essential numerical properties for accurate simulations.

This book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today's volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

This book focuses on recent advances, approaches, theories and applications related to mixture models.

This volume collects the extended versions of papers presented at the SIS Conference "e;Statistics and Data Science: new challenges, new generations"e;, held in Florence, Italy on June 28-30, 2017.

This book of peer-reviewed contributions presents the latest findings in classification, statistical learning, data analysis and related areas, including supervised and unsupervised classification, clustering, statistical analysis of mixed-type data, big data analysis, statistical modeling, graphical models and social networks.

This book presents an introduction to linear univariate and multivariate time series analysis, providing brief theoretical insights into each topic, and from the beginning illustrating the theory with software examples.

The book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), with the theme "e;Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology, and Social Sciences,"e; which was held from August 29 to 31, 2023, in Crete, Greece.